4 months ago
Associate Director of Communications
Right To The City Alliance
New York, USA (Remote)Full time
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Associate Director of Communications
New York, USA (Remote)
Salary Not AvailableMid Level7+ years expFull time
Posted 4 months ago
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Job Summary
Drive the alliance-wide narrative strategy and campaign communications for Right to the City Alliance, coordinating teams and aligning messaging across Homes for All campaigns.
- Must-have: 7+ years leading digital organizing and rapid-response campaign efforts.
- Standout: Proven ability to lead teams, manage campaigns and budgets, and influence cross-program messaging.
- Standout: Experience with multi-channel campaign analytics and strategic narrative development.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Political and Organizational Leadership (15%)
- Contribute to developing politically grounded assessments, proposals, and strategic priorities
- Help build alliance-wide coherence and alignment with both staff and members around strategy and priorities
- Reflect a commitment to praxis
- Staff Development and Support (20%)
- Assess staff development needs for supervisees
- Orient to supervision as an ongoing practice, identifying areas for growth and development
- Be an accessible resource for staff with grounded solutions and organizational context
- Model effective, principled communication and grounded responses to conflict mediation
- Work Planning (10%)
- Align the communications work plan with the Homes for All campaign and the Alliance’s long-term strategy
- Finalize work area work plans
- Plan for team meetings
- Share reports directly from team & supervision meetings
- Surface cross-team or cross-department issues to bring to the leadership team
- Communications Team (5%)
- Lead the agenda development and facilitation of Communications Team meetings, and co-lead Organizing Department meetings with other Associate Directors
- Co-lead the RTTC Communications Committee
- Manage and provide leadership to the Senior Organizer and National Organizer of Communications to execute the work plan
Alliance-wide Narrative Strategy & Organizational Branding
- Lead the development and implementation of a cohesive, Alliance-wide narrative strategy that advances tenant power, housing justice, and campaign priorities.
- Collaborate with leadership, RTTC member organizations, and the Organizing Department to ensure messaging aligns across programs, platforms, and public engagement efforts.
- Analyze media, political, and cultural trends to inform narrative opportunities and refine messaging for maximum impact.
- Train and support spokespeople, member organizations, and staff to consistently communicate the organization’s core narratives across campaigns, media, and digital channels.
- Develop and refine organizational branding, and ensure that branding is adopted across all facets of the Alliance’s work
- Bottomline the website’s consistency with both our narrative strategy and organizational branding
The Homes for All Campaign Communications
- Develop and execute communications strategies that advance the national Homes for All campaign and elevate its visibility.
- Collaborate closely with Campaign and Member Engagement teams to amplify tenant voices and build a mass renter movement.
- Craft messaging, digital content, and media outreach that highlight campaign priorities, including rent control and social housing.
- Monitor and respond to public and media narratives to ensure the campaign’s goals are clearly represented and strategically advanced.
Membership Communications
- Oversee communications to RTTC Alliance member organizations via newsletters, email campaigns, social media updates, and WhatsApp member threads to ensure a coherent and compelling narrative across RTTC Membership Communications channels
- Collaborate with the Membership Engagement Team to create a coordinated and coherent approach to member communications to deepen RTTC members understanding and ownership over alliance-wide campaigns & interventions.
Right To The City Alliance
Right to the City is a national alliance of membership-based organizations and allies organizing to build a united response to gentrification and displacement in our cities. Our goal is to build a national urban movement for housing, education, health, racial justice and democracy. We are building our power through strengthening local organizing; cross-regional collaboration; developing a national platform; and supporting community reclamation in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
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Monthly Visitors
4.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.3%
Direct
48.3%
Referral
6%
Social
16.9%
Paid
1.4%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~28
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
4 (14% of company)